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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1972
Page
1
Scottsdale police seek a white male, 6 ft and 185 pounds, 35 to 40, who entered the Steakpit at 2730 N Scottsdale Rd at 8 am brandishing a .25 caliber pistol and fled after stealing $300. Owner Frank Gorman, 72, tied and freed during the incident and fired six shots to draw attention.
Comedian George Carlin is slated for Milwaukee court appearances on August 28 amid a charged incident following his Summerfest 72 Lake Front performance. His attorney failed to have the charge dropped on Monday.
A Phoenix couple died in a freak traffic accident on Interstate 17 when a spare tire discharged from a tractor trailer struck their car and forced it through a fence into a building. The incident raised Arizona highway deaths to 417 for the year, while Buckeye youth Victor C. Matthews Jr. remained hospitalized after a prior broadside collision involving a tractor trailer driven by Charles J. Hambacher of Chandler.
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson was admitted to Brooke Army Hospital after developing chest pains and nausea. Doctors reported no heart attack at present and noted his condition was satisfactory with stable heart rhythm and blood pressure.
President Nixon hosts a morning session with a bipartisan group of big city mayors and local officials before Capitol Hill testimony on revenue sharing legislation. Democrats praise his leadership and say the bill could pass before Labor Day, while Republicans attending include Driggs, Garn, and Haskell.
Saigon command claims unopposed entry into the Quang Tri Citadel and recapture of the city from North Vietnamese forces after 86 days of Communist control. Field reports, however, note heavy house to house fighting and ongoing clashes near Hue and in the citadel.
ASPEN Colo UPI Lance Reventlow heir to Woolworth fortune and Barbara Hutton’s son died in a small plane crash in the Colorado Rockies during a thunderstorm. He was 36 and was surveying land when the craft hit a wooded mountainside eight miles from the road. Pilot and two other passengers also died. Rescue crews confirmed all aboard dead.
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